{"id":381295,"date":"2017-12-08T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=381295"},"modified":"2017-12-08T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:57:11","slug":"govt-working-with-who-to-provide-vaccines-for-kumaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/govt-working-with-who-to-provide-vaccines-for-kumaca\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov’t working with WHO to provide vaccines for KUMACA"},"content":{"rendered":"
The government is soliciting the help of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to provide influenza vaccines for the students and staff of the Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti Region who remain at risk from the disease.<\/p>\n
The Director of Disease Control and Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Franklin Asiedu Bekoe had earlier made similar indications to Citi News<\/strong> about the procurement of vaccines for the school.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”eBhohiQXM3JCLKB0qOnpLpI6zRECcJee”]Addressing Parliament on Friday, the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, said, \u201cas I speak, indications that we are getting from WHO is such that vaccines that can combat the strain that we have are available and we are making arrangements to see how best we can bring some of them into the country for further activities.\u201d<\/p>\n On Thursday, the Ministry announced that samples from Kumasi Academy students sent to the Noguchi Memorial Institute tested positive for the pandemic strain of influenza type A, H1N1 2009 also known as Swine Flu.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The samples were sent after it became clear there was a health crisis in the school following the death of four students in the last week.<\/p>\n